Deu 23:4, Judg 3:8-10, 1Ch 19:6, Act 2:9 | ESV | STEP | because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way , when you came out of Egypt , and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia , to curse you.

Deuteronomy 23:4

4 ^abecause they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they ^bhired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ^cMesopotamia, to curse you.

Judges 3:8-10

8 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, ^dand he sold them into the hand of ^eCushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years. 9 But when the people of Israel ^fcried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a ^gdeliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, ^hOthniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. 10 ⁱThe Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.

1 Chronicles 19:6

6 When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms} of silver to hire chariots and horsemen ^kfrom Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from ^lZobah.

Acts 2:9

9 Parthians and ^mMedes and ⁿElamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,